La tempesta Balletto di Toscana

Set Design and Visual Design

Paolo Calafiore

Coreography and Direction

Fabrizio Monteverde

Music

Massimo Nunzi

Production

Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini
e Balletto di Toscana

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Photos

Paolo Calafiore Archive

Abstract

A dense weave woven by glimpses of reality and illusion, punctuate and transform the events that unfold within the magical perimeter of space surrounded by great white sails and torn by the Storm that become cavities and vital and arcane space in which Prospera traces her design for revenge. Here the sails swell with wind and dematerialize into arcane enchantments and labyrinthine places that eventually lead to Prospero's presence. But something in the plot jams, and here is the plot unraveling that comes to another unexpected ending : forgiveness and a return to Life.

Press Review

Glimpses of magic in Neverland

Throughout the performance, dance enters and exits from a screen backdrop (the conception is by Paolo Calafiore) on which arcane, mysterious, surreal images are projected that speak to us of illusionistic rituals and magic games: they are those of Prospero, of course, who is magician as well as king. But they are also those that so often inhabit the flesh and imagination of all of us, castaways of the world.

Vittoria Ottolenghi, Il Resto del Carlino (3th november1996)
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Away from the Crazy Storm

Letting go of the visual suggestions whispered in gentle reverberation by Paolo Calafiore's video projections.

Rossella Battisti, L’unità 2 (3th november 1996)
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The Technological Storm

Immersed in Paolo Calafiore's set design, ready to be transformed by fantastic photographic video projections.

Silvia Poletti, L’Unità (10th dicember 1996)
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And “The Storm” yields to technology

...It is especially the set design that touches on the baroque impalpable and evocative in its transformation into something else. And this is thanks to the singular videographies (by Paolo Calafiore).

Domenico Ricotti, Avvenire (28th march 1997)